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Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 16:47:11 +0200
From: Natanael Copa <ncopa@...inelinux.org>
To: Jörg Krause <jkrause@...teo.de>
Cc: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: why is there no __MUSL__ macro?
On Thu, 11 Sep 2014 13:00:09 +0200
Jörg Krause <jkrause@...teo.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to add support for the musl toolchain to FFmpeg.
>
> FFmpeg needs support for library features defined in POSIX.1-2001 with
> XSI extension and the standards below. Currently configure probes the
> host and target libc by checking for defined macros like __GLIBC__ and
> __UCLIBC__. In case of glibc and uclibc it sets -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=600
> properly.
>
> After this it checks for some combinations of hardware and the probed
> libc to set some more compile options, if necessary.
>
> I know that musl does not have a macro __MUSL__ and I have read the
> explanation. However, I don't understand what's meant by "[..] it's a
> bug to assume a certain implementation has particular properties rather
> than testing." and how does it affect the way FFmpeg probes for the libc.
>
> What could be a solution which supports musl?
>
> Many thanks!
> Jörg
This is what we do on alpine linux:
http://git.alpinelinux.org/cgit/aports/tree/main/ffmpeg/fix-defines.patch
--- ffmpeg-1.2.2.orig/libavutil/error.c
+++ ffmpeg-1.2.2/libavutil/error.c
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
*/
#undef _GNU_SOURCE
+#define _XOPEN_SOURCE 600
#include "avutil.h"
#include "avstring.h"
#include "common.h"
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